Guy de Maupassant

Paris had just heard of the disaster of Sedan. The Republic was proclaimed. All France was panting from a madness that lasted until the time of the...

Society called him Handsome Signoles. His name was Viscount Gontran-Joseph de Signoles.An orphan, and possessed of an adequate income, he cut a dash, as the...

A poor family set their hopes on the return of a previously good-for-nothing uncle who left for America to seek his fortune.

A group of bored Prussian soldiers amuse themselves destructively while holed up in a French chateau.

A young man's suspicions are aroused when he finds out his dead mother is appearing to his father, threatening eternal damnation unless the

Creeping paranoia becomes something altogether more sinister, but is it madness or has he discovered a plot that threatens humanity.

When one of the winter caretakers of an isolated mountain inn goes missing, loneliness beings to take its toll on the other.

A man picks up a piece of string, an act which unfortunately coincides with the loss of a mayor's pocket book.

A man is certain his friends are about to play a practical joke on him ...

A man describes the most frightening night of his life.

A poor woman borrows a necklace from a rich friend. Classic twisty tale.

An avaricious farmer makes arangements to have his dying mother looked after so he can get his crop in.